It’s tempting to believe that at the third stage interview you were home and dry and that this meeting was a short step to the final job offer. Clearly, for you, this was not the case which is why a job candidate must always understand the hiring process for the job...

Hiring managers are interested in the chosen candidate and so they have little interest in anyone else at that point. Often the real reason an organisation does not feedback on why they have rejected a candidate is simply that they don’t have to respond. There is...

The key thing to note here is that the company are ‘‘considering’ you. There is no offer, and therefore from your perspective, there is no decision to make. There are several reasons why the company is delaying making a decision: A key decision maker has not given...

There are risks associated with any career you can name because of the changing pace of technology. In this context, people often believe it’s about technology causing job losses, which of course does happen, but many new jobs are formed to replace those that...

Your next employer will want to know why you have switched jobs of course but whether they see it as a problem will very much depend on how you tell your story and the reasons you give for moving on in a relatively short period of time. We now live in a time when...

This question is never fair because most hiring managers know that people leave a person (usually a boss) first, rather than a job role. This reason is generally followed by lack of opportunity/development within a team, a mismatch of company culture and possibly...